Re: Anyone Using KML Files For Family History?

"Roger Donne" <roger@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote: 

> "Mardon" <mgb72mgb@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> "Roger Donne" <roger@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>
>>> My attempts at representing information from an 18th century estate
>>> map on modern satellite images from Google Earth is shown at
>>> http://www.donne.me.uk/crowan/godolphinmanor.htm.
The area
>>> represented is in the parish of Crowan in Cornwall, UK.
>>>
>>> Regards: Roger Donne
>>
>> Thanks for your example, Roger.  Static jpeg images, customized with
>> overlays, is pretty much the way that I've been going up to now also.
>> It works well but I've become interested in moving beyond that and
>> using KML to integrate my data with a geographic browser like Google
>> Earth.  I think that doing so will help provide people with a better
>> sense of location and scale.  Being able to zoom in and out and 'fly
>> around' the area of interest
>> seems to give a better feel for the geography.
> 
> Did you find the embedded KMZ link in the webpage? 
> http://www.donne.me.uk/crowan/Kerthen.kmz.
> The static images are just there for those who can't or don't want to 
> install Google Earth.
> Regards: Roger Donne 

Shame on me!  I did NOT see your KMZ link the first time.  

That's really cool. I like the idea of the polygons to denote land 
owner****p.  I think I'll adopt that idea for a few cases when I know the 
boundaries of farms that were owned by my ancestors.  I also agree that 
it's a good idea to offer the static image alternative.  Not everyone is 
going to want to install Google Earth and maybe that service won't even 
exist in the future.

I think that missing your KMZ link may have taught me a lesson too.  I'm 
always embedding im****tant links in the middle of text and assuming that 
people will notice them.  After all, these links are obvious to me.  When 
I loaded your page, I scanned down and immediately clicked on the big 
image.  I'd made the intuitive assumption that the KML/KMZ file would be 
linked to this image.  When I discovered that there was no link to that 
image, I scrolled further and found the links to your static images.  I 
never went back to see that I'd missed the KMZ link embedded in the text. 

Maybe it would be helpful to link the KMZ URL to that image?  Just a 
thought.

I also noticed that the green polygon for William Bartle does not fill 
completely.  It is very jagged.  All the others are fine.

Thanks again for the information.